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1. "Ox Cart ManIn October of the year,he counts potatoes dug from the brown field,counting the seed, countingthe cellar's portion out,and bags the rest on the cart's floor.He packs wool sheared in April, honeyin combs, linen, leathertanned from deerhide,and vinegar in a barrelhoped by hand at the forge's fire.He walks by his ox's head, ten daysto Portsmouth Market, and sells potatoes,and the bag that carried potatoes,flaxseed, birch brooms, maple sugar, goosefeathers, yarn.When the cart is empty he sells the cart.When the cart is sold he sells the ox,harness and yoke, and walkshome, his pockets heavywith the year's coin for salt and taxes,and at home by fire's light in November coldstitches new harnessfor next year's ox in the barn,and carves the yoke, and saws planksbuilding the cart again."Author: Donald Hall

2. "Maybe I should call Aaya!(Shigure)If you call him...(Yuki)I'll make you eat that phone.(Kyou)-Shigure-san,Yuki-san, Kyou-kun Shoma"Author: Natsuki Takaya

3. "Finally a soldier marched in and, holding his right hand to his chest, said, "Salaam aleikum. Chetor hastid? Jan-e-shoma jur ast? Khub hastid? Sahat-e-shoma khub ast? Be khair hastid? Jur hastid? Khane kheirat ast? Zinde bashi."Which in Dari, the Afghan dialect of Persian, means, "Peace be with you. How are you? Is your soul healthy? Are you well? Are you well? Are you healthy? Are you fine? Is your household flourishing? Long life to you." Or: "Hello."Author: Rory Stewart

4. "Today's youngsters will unfortunately never know the thrills we experienced dubbing movies in the era of Rashomon."Author: Teruyo Nogami

5. "I'm here, little one," came a voice made for coaxingsecrets from the heart. "Sleep now. We'll talk when it'stime.""Yes, sir," she said, now knowing where she was. Shesurrendered to sleep again.The most familiar darkness…her darkness…she washome."Author: Tiffany Reisz

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In another Nabokov novel, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Sebastian's brother discovers two seemingly incongruous pictures in his dead brother's library: a pretty, curly-haired child playing with a dog and a Chinese man in the act of being beheaded. The two pictures remind us of the close relation between banality and brutality." Author: Azar Nafisi